Karla Crome Quotes

One of the first things I was taught as an actor was, 'Don't judge the character.'

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

Any decent actor knows you can't judge the character you're playing.

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

I don't categorize characters into one syllable. These are fully-rounded characters that I don't judge; I just play them.

I never judge the characters I'm asked to play, and I don't need to feel that they are a part of me.

I do enter into character on set, but I can step out of it.

I've always had a process that I do before I even get to set or go to the location. I work privately, and it almost feels like therapy between me and who I'm playing. So I have this inner life that's there and it gives me a confidence, too, that when I'm playing the role I know every question.

As an actor, I think it's always important to separate yourself from your characters because, when you include yourself in a character, you're taking a liberty that you don't really have unless you're life is that incredibly close to the character.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

I love acting... I really do. I love crawling into another character's skin. That's something that I've always, always, always, always wanted.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

You can't really judge characters, because that's when it gets really hard to play them.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

I don't act in the way other actresses act, in terms of building or creating a character. I don't transform myself into the role, I invest myself in the role.

There's nothing worse - I don't like listening to actors talk about the process, especially when - I mean, for me I've played a lot of guys, dudes, boys in a sense and this was a challenge for me just to play that official character.

As an actor, you're sort of the court-appointed lawyer for the character.

Ultimately, the idea of acting is to understand the people you're playing, and then where they're coming from is not so mystifying. You've got to detox a bit after, though.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

When I act, a part of me goes into the character I am playing.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

A lot of male actors are method actors and they become the characters which they both were.

I try to allow the spirit of the character to live through me. That's the only way I know how to approach acting. I have to live it.